User talk:Spartaz

Spartaz (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

What again?

I'm a long term user (first edit 2006) and have been an admin on or off since 2017. That makes me a bit stuck in my ways but I have the benefit of experience and working through many of the changes that have left us where we are. I am getting grumpy. Sorry but all the drama and grief has washed away a lot of my younger idealism...

A BLP is a serious matter and needs to be properly sourced.

I mostly work on deletion discussions. I am willing to userfy deleted articles for improvement as long as there is a reasonable likelihood that they can be saved. If you are challenging a deletion, do you have three good sources? Also, don’t waste your time asking me to review a close or you are going to DRV because I’m not going to review a close with a sword hanging over my head. Just raise the DRV or ask someone else.

Useful Links:

• Deletion Review
• Articles for Deletion
• Unblocks

Please don't leave talkback templates as I always watchlist pages when I edit and I'm perfectly capable of looking for a reply myself.

please stay in the top three tiers

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thrikonam

• I am really disappointed by the deletion of the article Thrikonam. It was the first crowd funded 1 hour short film made in Kerala, India and the page had sufficient references including a Malayalam news channel report about the film.[1] Yes, it was shown only 4 times to public and the numbers will increase. We should have given the right due for that project in wikipedia and I request you to recreate the page as the film has been released officially in youtube. [2]Rajeshbieee (talk) 00:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Your news article seems to have no references to the TV channel at all - which is very unusual. I'd like to see evidence that this was a broardcast news item. Youtube? Counts for nothing here. Its published press and coverage that wins the day/ Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:18, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
• The news appeared in Asianet News, the most watched news channel of Malayalam and please see the link [3] after 3.20 minutes.Rajeshbieee (talk) 13:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
  • OK, i accept that source but the policy is for a minimum of two. Do you have another press or broardcast source? Spartaz ^Humbug! 20:22, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
• These two links comes up with the same news channel video [4] and [5], but this [6] news is from Times of India, the most popular news paper of India.Rajeshbieee (talk) 17:20, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Ok, you have persuaded me that we should have another look at this; I have therefore relisted the AFD. Spartaz ^Humbug! 11:55, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

comments on user pages

Would this be considered a personal attack [7]. Calling someone Javert. LibStar (talk) 23:00, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

• DRV closed Spartaz ^Humbug! 09:00, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vu Digital (2nd nomination)

Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vu Digital (2nd nomination), would you undelete Vu Digital and redirect it to C Spire Wireless, so I can do a selective merge of its content to its parent company, C Spire Wireless? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 00:05, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

• I honestly can't see how I could do that without ignoring the actual consensus of the discussion which was a slam dunk delete. I'd feel uncomfortable with a blatent supervote like that. No objection to your creating a redirect as an editorial decision but there is no consensus for a merge. Spartaz ^Humbug! 00:14, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

• I would like to copy and paste several sentences from the deleted article along with their sources into the parent company's article C Spire Wireless. It would be a violation of Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia#Attribution is required for copyright if I do that while the article's history deleted.

  "Delete" participant DreamGuy wrote that although he didn't want the entire article to be merged, "It should be mentioned more there, but it's up to the maintainers of that page how much to do so." I will merge only a few sentences to the article. I don't see how undeleting the history for me to make a selective merge would violate the AfD's consensus that the subject shouldn't have a standalone article. Cunard (talk) 00:23, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

This was a well attended afd where the vast majority of the voters said to delete. i have to close by the consensus and there is no policy or practise to justify putting your two votes ahead. I can only redirect/smerge by ugnoring the consensus and I can't do that. Spartaz ^Humbug! 00:31, 30 November 2015 (UTC)